After ten years working as a Product Manager, all I can say is that this career path has been one of the best decisions I have taken in my professional life. And I do think I’m not alone here. It sounds very much like a lot of people is or want to become one nowadays.Continue reading...

HiPPO, the acronym for “highest paid person’s opinion”, is the manager pops into your project at the last moment and offers an opinion on what to include to make the project a success. You should consider the idea for obvious reasons, even if it’s out of scope, past deadline or as crazy as buying Volkswagen stock. Altogether, the HiPPO theory describes an organisation’sContinue reading...

So, what is Holacracy? Essentially, it’s a new way of running an organisation that removes power from a management hierarchy and distributes it across clear roles, which can then be executed autonomously, without a micromanaging boss. Source: Mountain Goat SoftwareContinue reading...

Hard commitments are typical in command and control, plan driven environments and dysfunctional organisations. Soft commitments, on the other hand, abound in startup type organisations, small projects and any environment where people are happy, work as a team, take pride in their work and care about the result. Source: On the nature of commitmentContinue reading...

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Enric Durany

Product guy. Based in Zürich. Entrepreneur, previously co-founder @Vinarea. Writer @Hackernoon. Love building new products. Views are my own

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